Edmonton Elks fan Jason Woodhead has been to enough Grey Cups that he knows he wants to go to more -- at least the tailgate part. “I’ve been to the one here last time in Calgary. Then the ones in Edmonton. I’m thinking of going to Regina next year,” he added. The twist is that Woodhead wasn’t actually attending the game. “I’ll probably just go in the tailgate,” Woodhead said Sunday afternoon, as the buzz grew in the parking lot outside McMahon Stadium for the 113th Grey Cup game between Edmonton Elks and the Montreal Alouettes. Claude Martel said Sunday would be his 15th Grey Cup. “I love football,” Martel said. “I love the CFL football, and of course, the Grey Cup is like the end of the season. We have to be here. We (CFL fans) are (one) big family, meeting lots of friends from other teams. People I see every year for years -- it’s the ultimate game,(and) ultimate trip for a CFL fan.” He says the CFL fan community is forever, until it’s not. “I bring some friends who follow me,” he said. “Sometimes they stop following me because they die, but we replace them with new friends.” He’s rooting for the Alouettes Sunday. “I would have been disappointed if they have not been there because we were favorites,” he said. “We had a good season. We have a great team. We are the favorites. So had we lost last week against Winnipeg, it would have been a very hard bummer. “But now we are here,“ he added. ”So win or lose, that’s not important actually. We are here. That’s the last game. That’s the ultimate game.” The Alouettes are 3.5 point favourites to win the Grey Cup, which kicks off shortly after 5 p.m. at McMahon Stadium. With files from CTV News’ Kathy Le, Tommy Osborne and Glenn Campbell
